discernment wrote:And, when I applied for unsecured credit cards, the creditors matched the current limit of $5,000 of the secured credit cards for starting limits on the unsecured cards. YMMV but, funding the secured cards with the maximum amount possible HELPED in my situation.
+1 I have experienced this too. By starting out with a decent deposit to put a bigger credit lmit on a secured I opened for rebuilding, I was soon after approved for unsecured cards with higher limits.
